Echizen Gani Crab Museum
The Echizen Crab Museum is a hands-on facility where visitors can play and learn about the mysteries of Echizen crabs and the fish of the surrounding seas. The museum is filled with fun zones such as the Sea Walkway, Theater, Fishing Boat Challenge, and Picture Aquarium.
Visitors can encounter a new "crab culture" as an experience zone facility where they can play and learn about the mysteries of Echizen Gani crabs and the Sea of Japan.
7 Attractions of Echizen Crab Museum
1. Crab Lab
In the Crab Lab, you can study the crab's friends and the mechanisms of the crab's body.
2. Sea Walkway
The Tunnel Aquarium has been expanded, and a new aquarium has been completed. Visitors can see the mysterious ecology of live fish and shellfish as if they were in the sea. Please enjoy the various fish that live off the coast of Echizen from season to season.
3. Theater
The latest multi-projection projection system projects a powerful video onto a large screen 10 meters wide and 3 meters high, overwhelming the viewer. Visitors can feel the difficulty and thrill of crab fishing.
4. Aquarium Painting
This is a virtual aquarium where your own drawings of fish swim in a large-screen aquarium.
5. Crab Collecting
A game corner where visitors step on images of crabs and other creatures floating on the floor to make them move. Pick up trash on the beach and collect crabs hidden in the sand! Even adults will get carried away.
6. Crab Fishing Challenge - Fishing Boat Simulator
This is a game corner where you can experience fishing. The realistic reproduction of splashing waves makes you feel as if you are steering a real fishing boat. You can experience the whole process from leaving the harbor, finishing the crab fishing, to returning to the harbor. Be careful not to get seasick!
7. 3-story diorama that reproduces the depth of the sea at 300 m.
The diorama reproduces the hatching process of Echizen Gani crabs from eggs to larvae in February and March. Please enjoy the mystery of the deep sea and Echizen Gani crabs.img_0092.jpg)
Other fun and educational corners
Hall
Echizen Sea
Life on the Seashore
Creatures of the Shallow Sea 1
Umi no takara hall
Crab Fishing Now and Then
Creatures of the Echizen Coast 1
Creatures of the Shallow Sea 2
Echizen sea creatures 2
Fureai Kaido
Crab Show
Information
- Telephone Number
- 0778-37-2626（Echizen Gani Crab Museum）
- Address
- 福井県越前町厨71-324-1
- Opening Hours
- 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (last admission: 4:30 p.m.)
- Closed
- Every Tuesday
Closed on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays from November to March. - Prices
- Adults: 500 yen (junior high school students and older).
Children: 300 yen (3 years old and up to elementary school students).
Admission to the Echizen Gani Crab Museum Fish Market Building is free.
Discounts for the Disabled:
If you have a physical disability certificate, mental disability welfare certificate, or rehabilitation certificate, and one accompanying person, please present your certificate at the reception desk to receive a half-price discount on the general admission fee. - Payment Methods
- Cash payment upon entry
- Getting There
- By public transportation: Get off at Hapi-Line Fukui Takefu Station and take the Fukutetsu Bus bound for Kareizaki on the Echizen Kaigan Line (approx. 65 min.).
From Hokuriku Expressway Sabae I.C., approx. 50 min. via National Routes 8, 365 and 305, or approx. 45 min. via National Routes 8 and 305 from Tsuruga I.C. - Car Park
- Yes
- Parking Space for Large Buses
- Parking available at the adjacent "Michi no Eki Roadside Station Echizen".
- Website
